Jesse Royal - Major Lazer's Walshy Fire presents Jesse Royal, Royally Speaking Mixtape (Self-published)

Walshy Fire, one of the producers behind Major Lazer, is a wilful, versatile man. On the one hand he's produced tracks that can fill dancefloors all over the world, but on the other hand he can just as well move his focus to a young artist from Jamaica. 'Royally Speaking' (downloadable for free) is a unique mixtape that he's made with singer Jesse Royal, another representative of the reggae revival, together with other torchbearers like Protoje, Kelissa, Chronixx, Kabaka Pyramid and Micah Shemaiah. Back to the roots, but with a modern twist. The themes he touches upon are topical and at the same time peppered with traditional influences.